GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH

GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH is a four-year high school of cozy scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by GREAT HEARTS TEXAS, enrolling 476 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH sits 40% below that benchmark.

GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH is one of 13 schools operated by GREAT HEARTS TEXAS, a district that teaches 12,926 students overall.

On the student-mix side, GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 39% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.7%.

Around the school, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH is one.

GONZALES EARLY CHILDHOOD CAMPUS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA NORTH operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 17%: 406 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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